TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

More posts by this contributor Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign Teach yourself growth marketing: How to launch a paid acquisition channel Without customers, there can be no business. So how do you drive new customers to your startup and keep existing customers engaged?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. They will be placed with organizations working on policies in these areas, many part of large international networks, nonprofits, and government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working? Essentially, design thinking process teaches how to be iterative. How do we get a telling the story about why this all important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. This includes: 1.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

“However, the majority of English learners still struggle to improve their speaking skill because other people don’t understand them or they’re afraid to speak it,” she said. to teach English through short videos. YC-backed BlaBla raises $1.5M

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Brand Marketing Intern at Tableau, A Salesforce Company. The academic and professional worlds may not always be on the same page when it comes to equipping the incoming workforce with data skills. Being a Software Engineering Intern can get very technical. Gabby Isaguirre. Kristin Adderson. October 6, 2021 - 7:01am. Nadia Khan.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Brand Marketing Intern at Tableau, A Salesforce Company. The academic and professional worlds may not always be on the same page when it comes to equipping the incoming workforce with data skills. Being a Software Engineering Intern can get very technical. Gabby Isaguirre. Kristin Adderson. October 6, 2021 - 7:01am. Nadia Khan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including trips to London and Croatia. I also continue to expand my practice to designing and facilitating internal meetings for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including activating a culture of wellbeing and innovation labs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2014

The person I turn to for effective communication advice, David Grossman, has released a new eBook called, Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication. Communicating Communications Skills David Grossman Effective Communication'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Henry has created an online computer science school that trains software developers from low-income backgrounds to understand technical skills and get employed. It’s very exclusive, very expensive, and has very low impact skills. which focuses on software developer skills. The Henry team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This past year took me to London to teach nonprofit leaders at workshops on digital strategy hosted by LinkedIn and Social Misfits, and to Cambodia to teach a series of workshops for Women’s Rights NGOs hosted by Wake International.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Jeff Wetzler Today, Wetzler shares these insights with us: Question: Do you believe both introverted and extraverted people can be equally successful at learning and then using the skills you teach in your book? Question: Why is it so important to master only one skill you teach at a time? Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

The Forrester study revealed only 40% of employees are satisfied with the data skills training their organization offers. It’s time to rethink our approach to building basic data skills in our organizations to focus on relevancy, community, and inspiration, rather than isolated skill development.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

The Forrester study revealed only 40% of employees are satisfied with the data skills training their organization offers. It’s time to rethink our approach to building basic data skills in our organizations to focus on relevancy, community, and inspiration, rather than isolated skill development.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

Starting a fast-growing tech business is incredibly challenging, and requires a variety of skills. If you have a passion for design, programming or business – try to become incredibly skilled in one of those. Investing in your own knowledge and skills, means investing in your dream. There are many ways to gain this knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One area with a potential high risk of over-reliance on AI tools is internal collaboration and communication. Increasing staff interactions with AI tools could reduce human interactions internally. The most important skill nonprofit leaders can learn and teach their teams is to know when to use AI and when to use human skills.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Similar to remote schooling, the startups that kept their programs had a huge hurdle to face: How do you teach and train students across the world about your company? Symba sells a plug-and-play workspace for both interns and managers. Interns sign into Symba through a branded landing page and are brought into a workspace.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 2, 2024

With a background in social work, I have always seen the value in my coursework in conflict resolution as it applies to fundraising and White agrees that it is truly “social work,” saying the VP role requires skills in de-escalating conversations with donors who have lost trust in institutions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In part one of this EC-1 , we explored how von Ahn’s previous products around CAPTCHA led to Duolingo’s launch, the rise and fall of crowdsourced translation as a way to disrupt language learning, and the accidental iteration of a top education app by a pair of interns. Each skill is a prerequisite for another. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. million students in international schools. The most important skill we can give kids or anyone is learning how to be adaptable,” said Shklaz. The Singapore-based startup announced today that it has raised a $1.3

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2022

Led entirely by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing team members here at Snap called the ‘Deafengers’, the ASL Alphabet Lens teaches you to fingerspell your name, practice the ASL Alphabet, and play games that put new skills to the test,” Snap said in a blog post. Screenshots from the ASL Alphabet Lens app.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Hadley's international branch is located in Fuzhou, China. In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. The participants wear headsets with microphones.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

And yet data access and the skills required to understand the data are, in many organizations, restricted to business intelligence teams and IT specialists. More than technical proficiency with software, data literacy encompasses the critical thinking skills required to interpret data and communicate its significance to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. I will be teaching a graduate course at the Monterrey Institute in January as well as other opportunities. Year in Review. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. When we let this discussion unfold, it simply reframed how we looked at “internal” or “proprietary” data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Another example includes using AI to optimize volunteer engagement by aligning opportunities with individual skills and interests. One metaphor is to think of the AI as an intern that you need to clearly communicate instructions to and then check their work and revise. In other words, use all your critical thinking skills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Whether you work with young volunteers or interns, or if your organization focuses specifically on childrens services, Ive learned a few key points that have helped me make strong connections with kids during my time with Team MPhasis. Try to think of ways you can encourage your interns and volunteers to work with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

March 8th is International Women’s Day. We need more better policies to address gender parity and more programs that build the capacity of nonprofits and the tech skills of women and girls in the development world. This day was intended to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Teach something new to your team 24. Promote excellent customer service both internally and externally 40. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Featuring a lively mix of nonprofit technology guests sharing their unique perspectives on ways to harness the power of gaming as a catalyst for good, you'll hear how some organizations are using games as a platform for teaching leadership skills, problem solving, and global community building to youth. Expert Guests.

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